Side-bar vehicle



(No Model.)

E. D. OLIN.

SIDE BAR VEHIGLE.

NO. 387,987. Patented Aug. 14, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATEN'r rrieeo ED`WIN D. OLIN, OF AVONDALE, OHIO.

SIDE-'BAR VEHICLE..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387.987, ated August 14, 1888.

Application filed April 25, 1887. Serial No. 235,994. (No model.)

To aZZ 107mm itmcty concrn:

Be it known that I, EDWIN D. OLIN, a citizen ofthe United States,and a resident of Avondale, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Side-Bar Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvementin side-bar vehicles.

lt relates to that class used as light deliverywagons, and especially to such wagons as are used by sewing-maehine agents. Its objectis to provide a vehicle which has all the strength required,combined with the easy-riding qualities of a sidebar bnggj, and which has the body dropped low, so as to be easily aeeessible from the i'ear for loading and nnloading. Its object is also to prevent the rotation of the axle,and so couple the gear that the bodysnpporting springs may be advantageously placed nnder the body at the points desired for the best results cominensurate with the duty required.

in the aecompanyingdrawings,in which like parts are represented by the same referenceleiters wherever they oecnr, Figure 1 is an end elevation of a vehicle embodying my improvenients. and Fig. 2 is a central Vertical longitndinal section of the rear part of the same.

Heretofore ithas been quite common to make a downward bend in either one or both of the axles, and to support the vehicle-body upon cross-Springs the outer ends of which were elipped in various ways to the bent portion of the axle or axles. The objections to these forms are that they tend to cause partial rotation of the axle and the consequent injurious effects; second,that they prevent a short coupling of the gear, which experience has found to be the most desirable; and, third, that they leave no limit for the adj nstment of the Springs with relation to the axle. These difficulties are all overcome by my nvention, which permits uniimited adjustment of the springs,and, firmly bracing the gear by the double perch and side bars, prevents rotatiou of the axle, enables the gear to be shortly coupled np, and

seeures the low hanging of the body and the easy accessibility from the rear for the purpose of loading and nnloading.

Therear axle, A,is constructed with a downward bend, a, in the nsnal manncr, and on the top it has a wooden rap, B, held on the ends of the axle by clips b Z). Aside from the down- Ward bend in the rear aXle, the balance of the mailing-gear,` including the cross-Springs C, front axle D, bolsters G, and the body E, is constructed in the nsual manner. The side hars, F, are clipped upon the axle-caps B B and front bolster Gv in the same manner that they are usnally olipped upon sidebar buggies, and the cross-Springs O, which connect the body and running-gear, may be of any approved construction; but for strength, combined with eiasticity, I prrfer to use the Olin spring shown.

The double reach H, connecting the rear axle and king bolt with the side bars ,F, firmly clipped upon the rear axle and front holster, keeps the gear in shape and prercnts the rotation of the axle, and this is the best form of gear to use in my improved wagon; but it is obvious that a single reach may he used by employing the customary braces from it to the rear aXle, and also that a reach of any kind may be entirely dispensed with by cmploying braces from the rear axle to the side bars, as is now usually done in side-bar Vehicles, provided the side bars are made sufficiently rigid.

In constructing my wagon any ot' the wellknown gear irons or fifth-wheels may be employed for ('onnccling either a double or single reach with theking-bolt-,and any ordinary fifthwheel when the reach or perch is oinitted.

lVhat I claim is- The combination of the bent rear axle, the rigid side bars ('lipped upon the rear axle and front bolster, the wagon-body, and the crosssprings con necting the body and side bars,sub-` stantially as shown and deseribed.

EDWIN D. OLIN.

fitnessesz GEO. J. MURRAY, MARY L. MURRAY. 

